BoardReader

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You are as aggorant as a texan. F you both. I will gladly leave you to your demise

Weird, how you deflect my mentions about the brown people. Perhaps, you profit from them
You should thank me for creatimg your paradise, dick
There is no soul here only money

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Talking an awful lot for being done. Like most things, you demonstrate ongoing cluelessness. Shocker.

Oh noes, brown people! Almost all of whom speak and use English in business, and who have one color in mind-- green. Who don't shun anyone who walks through their doors.

The only way you'll contribute to Paradise, is by leaving.

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Nothing I didn't expect. You and your like have always hated anything LSU and you carry on that sentiment. Ya'll are so jealous. I've lived it for 20 years. DICK!
I'll ponder how butthurt ya'll are while I sip sweet tea and catch catfish in my backyard while watching LSU domimate ya'll for years to come

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Twenty year carpetbagger. GTFO with all of your Louisiana trash to your cousin humpin' bayou.

The actual answer was that it was a product of two things-- pace and a lack of spacing. The NBA declined as a scoring product, as the pace ebbed, paired with much less free space for shooting without as many specialized systems to enhance scoring.

You want to know how pace has changed over the years? From the NBA beginning to track pace in the 73-74 season, to 1988-89, the pace of play finished under 100 a total of one time-- 99.6-- it would fall into the 80s at the nadir, spent 20 straight years under 93, and didn't recover to 100 until 2018-- a number that's still only been eclipsed twice after.

So, a slower game, with less shooting, and FT shooting about a percent to two percent lower than the historical norm, and you ended up with some really dreadful scoring totals.

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Was it written 60 years after Ian Fleming's death?

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Why yes, just like dozens of others were written by authors other than Flemming. We have a number of Bond movies that have no basis in Flemming's Bond, and others that use and trade excerpts from books for specific scenes, under movies of a different name or adapted.

Flemming Bond story 'purity' is a bad faith concept-- it has been an adulterated franchise since 1968

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Strange use of the name Aethelstan in the context being implied. What book is that?

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On HIs Majesty's Secret Service, 2023.

It is used for a villain who claims to be descended from Alfred the Great. This would also match his name to the historical illegitimate Grandson of Alfred who became one of the most important English kings, overseeing early translations of the Bible into English, was the first to make the Welsh and Scots pay homage to the throne of England--- this was the first step to the formal conquests of Edward the 1st 3 centuries later.

It was a random Friday afternoon, and I had taken a half day to hang out with my wife.. The kids were still in school, and we were just relaxing out in the sun, when my phone buzzes. I'm feeling lazy and my phone was on a table a few feet away, where my wife was sitting, so I told her to check the text and see who it was, because I really didn't feel like replying.

She unlocks my phone and I hear a laugh-snort that catches my attention. I ask what the kids had sent that made her laugh; she explains it wasn't from the kids, and she shows me a rather graphic photo attached to a rather insistent request that I show up immediately and wreck multiple orifices, because the limber young lady had been waiting all day looking forward to me ditching my wife and railing her on my wife's desk in the office.

Two minor problems. The hot lady was a good decade younger than me, and my wife has been a homemaker our entire marriage. I'm borderline offended by the level of laughter this has induced in my wife, but I'm trying to be a good sport, I take my phone and type in a prolonged reply about confessing the entire lurid affair to my wife, and that while I will be in the office in five minutes, she might beat me there.

Needless to say, there were no follow up texts, but I do wish I had seen the outcome of either confusion, realization, or panic that may have entailed from my response.

It is more NIL than just the transfer rules.

Look at it this way; we're now 3 full seasons and tournaments into the process of highly organized, efficient NIL machines being in major college basketball. During those 3 tournaments, we have seen 3 double digit seeds advance to the Sweet 16.

11 Seed Texas
10 Seed Arkansas
11 Seed NC State.

They're all high majors with significant funding and support structures. This isn't an accident, this is accounting.

Wisconsin, Virginia, and Arkansas are candidates; a lot of it is going to depend on the draws these teams get.

Bill Greason's got to be what, 100? 101?

Even if you buy the OP's argument, the answer from the NBA would be a collective 'Who gives a flying frick? Go.

Dollars will drive their decisions, and little else, save for a little virtue signaling.

There won't be fewer bowls. There is a waiting list of bowl groups who are simply waiting for existing bowls to fold.